SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Department of Health on Sunday reported 396 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state, along with six more deaths from the disease and another 15,861 vaccines given against it.
Currently, the state has an average of 507 new cases reported per day and a positive test rate of 4.12% in the last week.
There are currently 167 Utahns hospitalized for COVID-19, including 63 in intensive care. Sunday’s numbers come as another 7,397 tests have been performed.
Overall, the state has now confirmed 378,379 COVID-19 cases and conducted 4,007,693 tests. He administered 1,009,029 vaccines – in excess of $ 1 million, as Governor Spencer Cox promised on Saturday – and lost 2,027 people to the virus.
“The state of Utah has reached a significant stage in the fight against COVID-19 today. More than one million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the state,” the health department said in a statement. “For those of you who have already taken photos, thank you. For the others, please take the vaccine when it’s your turn. It’s the way we get our lives back.”
Of those millions of vaccines administered, 365,176 Utahns are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Complete vaccination requires one dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine or two doses of Moderna or Pfizer vaccines.
The six deaths reported on Sunday were:
- A man in Davis County over the age of 85 who was a resident of a long-term care facility
- A 45-year-old man from Salt Lake County who was hospitalized when he died
- A Utah County woman between the ages of 65 and 84 who was a resident of a long-term care facility
- A Utah County man between the ages of 65 and 84 who was not hospitalized when he died
- Two men in Utah County between the ages of 45 and 64 who were hospitalized
There is no coronavirus press conference scheduled for the weekend. Cox will hold his regular weekly press conference later this week; the conference usually takes place on Thursday.